Fedora 42 Desktop missing NVIDIA X Server settings

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Oh, hi. Been using Fedora 42 for a couple weeks now. I’m fairly new.
I’ve been through Debian 12, Ubuntu 25.04 and now Fedora 42 this past month.
Distro hopping looking for a distro that suits my needs and use cases. Learned a lot.
Anyway, I settled for Fedora 42. It’s a SO that could just use it instead of tweaking and fixing.

But… It’s the only SO (so far) I couldn’t configure NVIDIA X Server setting because they’re just missing.

My system settings and specs:

fedora-42-fastfetch-print
fedora-42-fastfetch-print1124×749 107 KB

My nvidia-smi print:

nvidia-smi-print
nvidia-smi-print1124×749 92.1 KB

NVIDIA X Server print:

nvidia-x-server-settings-print
nvidia-x-server-settings-print1051×864 104 KB

As you guys can see: I can’t change any parameters. Simply nothing.
What am I missing?

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I think this is how the app normally behaves on Wayland, but I might be wrong. It’s the same for me on F41 KDE.

You say that it’s different on Debian 12 and Ubuntu 25.04 - which DE were you running on those distros? And was it X11 or Wayland?

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As you posted as far as I have read that is the way nvivia-setting is going to stay on wayland.As far as settings we should be able to set the card up through the desktop or kde settings .It has been this way on wayland since I started using it several years ago.

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Debian 12 was KDE. At first X11, but after checking the Debian Wiki I managed to resolve usage to Wayland. All settings present.

Ubuntu 25.04 was GNOME. The only distro straight foward to new users. No tweaking, no drama. BUT… Snaps? No thanks.

I even tried Linux Mint before those, but I felt off… So at the same day I went to Debian 12, no sweat.

Every other distro had all setting enabled… I did even manage to broke them at some point. :rofl:

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I see. I think I had messed up something since I could change settings: it used to work just fine in Debian 12 KDE (before I broke everything).